1. native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton; [syn: upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gossypium hirsutum
n 1: native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United
States yielding short-staple cotton [syn: upland cotton,
Gossypium hirsutum]